One of the surprising things about this season of my life is the way so many of the poured in concrete theological beliefs have been pulled loose. In retrospect I sometimes find myself wondering if I simply left my seminary years with all the right answers to the questions being asked without considering the possibility that there were questions not asked and, therefore, answers not sought. And, to be honest is to admit that I have not gone seeking those questions as much as they have been seeking me.
It is surely true that a stagnant faith bent on staying exactly the way it has always been is the worst kind of theological baggage to carry with us through our spiritual journey. The most determined antagonist of Jesus were those men of such theological certainty that there was no openness to God being about something new in the present moment of their living. All they could see was what they had been taught to see and anything else was such a threat to their unchangeable theology that it could be neither tolerated, or considered.
One of the most certain things that all of us experience is the change which the seasons of our life bring to us. Of course, these seasons are not the named one on the calendar pages, but the ones which usher us into the uncharted years of our life. In the midst of these seasons where we have not really experienced the presence of God new questions unfold in abundance and to be afraid of them speaks of a failure to trust the One who has brought us to the new place in our life.
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